Gottfrid Svartholm was MIA in the court proceedngs, and at the time it was reported that he was in a hospital in Cambodia and was not available to appear in court. There seems to be little known of his whereabouts since then, or if he is even alive, so the court has apparently gone ahead and wrapped up his case according to TorrentFreak.

His Pirate Bay co-founders have moved on with the new project Bayfiles, an online storage and downloading service that feeds off of the old Pirate Bay name, but is actually a service akin to storage and search sites Megaupload, RapidShare and Hotfile -- which is to say you can do anonymous uploads. But they also have given signs that they want it to be cloud-based storage as well.